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On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base.
There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows.
The last people to live here moved away long ago.
Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs from the outer wall down into the surrounding soil.  
The cable was installed to connect the home to the internet after the base closed.
It costs more than $340…

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Trial lawyers, with big liability litigation earnings, are among the most active lobbyists against autonomous vehicles, even as data shows clear safety benefits (Alex Tabarrok/Marginal Revolution)
https://marginalrevolution.com/margina

Trial Lawyers Lobby Against Autonomous Vehicles - Marginal REVOLUTION
Roughly 37,000–40,000 Americans die in auto accidents every year. We now have large‑scale, real‑world evidence—from Waymo and a joint analysis with Swiss Re—that driverless operations can be substantially safer than matched human driving within their current operating domains. The latest data show that over 220 million miles driven, Waymo vehicles–in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, […]

Won't happen for me.
1. Bus service all too many days is unreliable and I don't want to be stuck.
2. On some days I have meals in the slow cooker. Why? Wife is disabled and has challenges cooking so I make sure she has a meal ready to eat and I would like to be home having dinner with her rather than waiting for a bus.

How Paul Dacre broke new ground to sell readers an angry perspective at the Daily Mail and helped radicalize the UK's rightwing press, now run by his disciples (Andy Beckett/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com…

The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised
The long read: Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples

Spatio-Temporal Signatures of Intermittency in Helically Rotating Turbulence through Topological Data Analysis
Snigdhashree Mallick (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India), Yashwanth Ramamurthi (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India), Shiva Kumar Malapaka (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India), Amit Chattopadhyay (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17560 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17560 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17560
arXiv:2605.17560v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A central challenge in hydrodynamic turbulence is identifying precisely when, and at which length scales, strong turbulent fluctuations (STFs) emerge and develop into intermittent events, which are often obscured by conventional statistical diagnostics. We address this problem by applying a Topological Data Analysis (TDA) framework to reveal the spatiotemporal signatures of intermittency in low-resolution ($128^3$) helically rotating turbulent flows. Vorticity magnitude and length-scale (eddy size) fields are used as scalar observables for TDA: vorticity characterizes rotational dynamics that generate multiscale flow structures, while length-scale fields encode the scales at which intermittent activity arises. Their evolving topology is quantified using persistence diagrams and Wasserstein-distance metrics. Compared with traditional statistical approaches, this framework is more sensitive to localized and short-lived flow variations, enabling clearer detection of intermittent behavior. Pronounced variations in Wasserstein-distance heatmaps provide direct signatures of STFs across space and time. Together, these results demonstrate that TDA offers an effective complementary tool for detecting STFs that lead to intermittency within turbulent regime.
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This looks like an impressive achievement by AI , post from Ethan Mollick on BlueSky. The token cost will be immense I think.
https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3mqev3ailf223

Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social)
This was one of those impressive AI thresholds for me. I gave GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex control over my computer, and asked it to win the daily challenge for the game Slay the Spire 2 (randomized factors, so can't cheat). Its a complex game. It worked for 5 hours, making complex game choices... and won.

How does Myles Garrett fit in Rams defense? How All-Pro changes everything https://www.nfl.com/news/how-does-myles-garrett-fit-in-rams-defense-how-all-pro-changes-everything

I went to the beautiful little town of Bietigheim today, because my son had a rehearsal with the Youth Philharmonic Ludwigsburg there. Anyway, the old town is lovely. Stunning half-timbered houses, a 14th-century city gate, a music school in an old castle, and also … this. 😳

“Not only did he want to purchase Greenland, he actually said he wanted to see if we could sell Puerto Rico,” Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, later said. “Could we swap Puerto Rico for Greenland? Because, in his words, Puerto Rico was dirty and the people were poor.”
Trump’s Reported Wild Puerto Rico and Greenland Swap Idea Draws Fresh Criticism
https://thesource.com/2026/06/18/trumps-reported-wild-puerto-rico-and-greenland-swap-idea-draws-fresh-criticism/

French firefighters are tackling a blaze of unprecedented scale sweeping through Fontainebleau forest south-east of Paris,
while in southern Spain the prime minister visited the scene of a deadly wildfire and warned:
“The climate emergency kills.”
The fire in Fontainebleau, a one-time royal hunting preserve about 40 miles (60km) from the French capital
that today is dotted with villages,
began late on Sunday afternoon.
The blaze, which is unusual in its p…

Firefighting planes scrambled from south of France to tackle huge wildfire near Paris
Officials say blaze in Fontainebleau forest is of ‘exceptional scale’, with 900 homes evacuated and road and rail links hit